The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, assured this Friday that Juan Guaidó and Julio Borges, together with other leaders of the Venezuelan extreme right such as Carlos Vecchio and Mauricio Claver-Carone, discussed at the White House, on 5 February 2020, the assassination of the president, Nicolás Maduro.
He pointed out that in that meeting they called for a military invasion against Venezuela. The information was published in a thread through the social network Twitter, where he also pointed out that they proposed to the then president of the United States, Donald Trump, that the only way out to have control of Venezuela was to end the President.
In this sense, they considered that the direct military invasion was preferable, because a mercenary invasion from Colombia would be complicated; however, Guaidó and Claver-Carone ran a special mercenary operation similar to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
“The answer is given by Esper himself, three months after the Guaidó meeting, the “Gideon” operation took place to assassinate President Maduro with a group of mercenaries trained and equipped in Colombia,” said the Venezuelan diplomat.
Operation Gideon was carried out from Colombia in the early morning of May 3, 2020. It was an alleged invasion along the coast of La Guaira, but it was frustrated by the security agencies of the Venezuelan State, and its purpose was to kidnap and assassinate the president. Nicolás Maduro and other authorities.
This is why Trump always thought that Guaidó was ‘weak’, unable to replace President Maduro, whom he saw as ‘strong’. Trump despised Guaidó because they went to beg US soldiers to invade their country while Maduro was fighting the invasion,” added the Venezuelan diplomat.
The evidence
Guaidó, Borges and Vecchio proposed that “it would be easier and faster if the US did it for us.” Esper asked again: ‘If some of those Venezuelans can be trained and equipped by the US, would they be willing to fight?’ He never had a clear answer: ‘they told me it was very complicated and would take a long time,’” said Moncada.
Similarly, he announced that on June 9, 2020, at a meeting of the National Security Council, Robert O’Brien, Trump’s adviser, proposed a military attack on the José Antonio Anzoátegui Refining Complex.
The objective was to paralyze the oil economy and, with the chaos and popular suffering, overthrow Maduro and impose Juan Guaidó as head of government.
This Thursday Moncada He had anticipated that Trump intended to attack the refinery in Anzoátegui.
Recently, Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense of the Trump administration, assured the US media that Trump’s advisers proposed two military invasions in his last year in office: one against Venezuela and the other against Iran, as well as carrying out a total blockade against Cuba.
